Upbeat is an arts programme broadcast nationally on RNZ Concert every weekday. The RNZ website promotes the programme as: What's going on in the world of music and the arts? From the concert hall to the cinema, we talk to musicians, composers, choreographers, dancers, actors, directors and artists - Upbeat finds out what makes them tick. In today's programme:
1.00 The Rock Star of classical music
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Chinese pianist Lang Lang gave a one-off New Zealand recital at Auckland's Civic Theatre last weekend. The 33 year old wows crowds wherever he plays with his flamboyant displays. He talks about what his addiction to performance and the buzz of constant touring.
1.15 Revealing the Singing Treasures
Taonga pūoro researcher, player and crafter Alistair Fraser in the RNZ studio with a hoard of different Maori instruments and a looping pedal plays a live session and shows how the taonga puoro come to life in his hands.
[video] https://youtu.be/S59RiTSr1Vc
1.25 Country Lass
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Indie-folk singer Mel Parsons secured the top song prize at the New Zealand Country Music Awards in early June. She won the Best Country Music Song for her track Alberta Sun.
[video] https://youtu.be/t-XKTPMTaIU
1.45 The Pacific beat
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Matthew Salapu – aka hip hop artist Anonymouz – talks to Tim Dodd about the soundscape, Resample Guåhån, which he created for the Festival of Pacific Arts that’s just recently been held in Guam.. The soundscape, along with its accompanying film, will be presented at the Auckland Art Gallery Auditorium tomorrow night.
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The Rock Star of classical music
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Chinese pianist Lang Lang gave a one-off New Zealand recital at Auckland's Civic Theatre last weekend. The 33 year old wows crowds wherever he plays with his flamboyant displays. He talks about what his addiction to performance and the buzz of constant touring.
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Chinese pianist Lang Lang gave a one-off New Zealand recital at Auckland's Civic Theatre last weekend. The 33 year old wows crowds wherever he plays with his flamboyant displays. He talks about what his addiction to performance and the buzz of constant touring.
Topics: music
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Tags: classical, Lang Lang
Duration: 14'55"
13:15
Revealing the Singing Treasures
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Taonga puoro researcher, player and crafter Alistair Fraser in the RNZ studio with a hoard of different Maori instruments and a looping pedal plays a live session and shows how the taonga puoro come to life in his hands.
Topics: music
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Tags: Matariki, traditional, instruments
Duration: 13'14"
13:25
Country Lass
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Indie-folk singer Mel Parsons secured the top song prize at the New Zealand Country Music Awards in early June. She won the Best Country Music Song for her track Alberta Sun.
Topics: music
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Tags: country, Mel Parsons, indie, folk
Duration: 16'22"
13:45
The Pacific beat
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Matthew Salapu - aka hip-hop artist Anonymouz - talks to Tim Dodd about the soundscape Resample Guåhån, which he created for the Festival of Pacific Arts that's just recently been held in Guam. The soundscape, along with its accompanying film, will be presented at the Auckland Art Gallery Auditorium tomorrow night.
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Musician Matthew Salapu – aka Anonymouz – sampled the natural environment of Guam in his soundscape Resample Guåhån for the 12th Festival of Pacific Arts.
On Friday 24 June the Resample Guåhan soundscape and accompanying film will screen in Wellington at Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision.
Highlights
Matthew Salapu: It was a mission because we decided to record the sounds there and create the soundscape there. So pretty much the first week there myself and an assistant and a visual artist went out and collated a whole bunch of sounds from the natural environments – performances, all sorts of things. Then the second week was spent in a mad hustle trying to edit and create the soundscape.
One of the main concepts of the soundscape is viewing sound as a lot of visual artists view their craft. The same way a carver looks at a block of wood for what it is – but more importantly what it could be by removing things. The same way a theatre practitioner walks into a new theatre and sees not only the space, but how they can utilise it and what they can turn it into.
You can’t help the environments you grow up in. For myself and a huge lot of us in our demographic, the dominant sound around us was American hip-hop. You look at that a little bit deeper into the recycling and looping – their histories, the sounds of jazz and funk and black American history, that’s amazing. It’s great to be brought up on those stories and sounds.
But as I’ve developed this I’ve thought it’s that much more special being able to loop our own sounds and get outside the four walls of the studio and explore the world of sound that’s around us.
Topics: music, Pacific
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Tags: soundscape
Duration: 15'08"